Adapted by Network scenarist Paddy Chayefsky from his only novel, Altered States (1980) is an unusual work of mainstream...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | April 15, 2024
Audiences and filmmakers alike can’t seem to get enough of body horror. The Soskas went for it full-throttle with their 2019...
BY LAURA KERN | April 19, 2022
Angel Dust (1994) is an energetically bleak film about the terrific ease with which we surrender our minds.
BY TOM PHELAN | November 30, 2023
“Horror” and “musical” are two terms that don’t exactly go hand in hand. Aside from the everlasting midnight phenomenon...
BY LAURA KERN | December 30, 2024
Lars von Trier has always been quietly obsessed with genre trash that his audience would find distasteful. Antichrist is more in the tradition of The Evil Dead...
BY LAURA WYNNE | February 19, 2025
I recently visited Queen Hatshepsut, the model for the mummy in The Awakening and the novel it’s based on: Bram Stoker’s...
BY KEVIN McNEER | November 9, 2024
Beast is a lot of movies in one package—fractured fairy tale, belated-coming-of-age story, psychological drama...
BY STEVEN MEARS | October 31, 2021
